ZSW
@zsw.bsky.social
I teach American Studies, labor history, and abolitionist university studies. Also I post about birds.
https://abolition.university/
This is what the sky looks like over the Hudson right now. Possibly a sign of an impending multiverse crisis.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is what the sky looks like over the Hudson right now. Possibly a sign of an impending multiverse crisis.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
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November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
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we are going to win
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
we are going to win
Here’s a Snow Bunting I found on the top of a landfill this morning.
November 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Here’s a Snow Bunting I found on the top of a landfill this morning.
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As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
She did not respond.
She did not respond.
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
She did not respond.
She did not respond.
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This case will be taught for decades in torta law classes
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This case will be taught for decades in torta law classes
Haven’t posted about birds here in a long time, so here are some recent ones: a broad-billed hummingbird in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York’s first (and the eastern seaboard’s fourth) Common Cuckoo, and a Long-Billed Dowitcher I saw at Piermont Pier back in September.
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Haven’t posted about birds here in a long time, so here are some recent ones: a broad-billed hummingbird in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York’s first (and the eastern seaboard’s fourth) Common Cuckoo, and a Long-Billed Dowitcher I saw at Piermont Pier back in September.
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a couple years ago i contracted with one of subway's ad agencies for a small rotating sandwiches collab that ultimately they decided not to publish and i never did anything with. today feels like a good day to post one of them. here's my favorite subway sandwich, the veggie delight
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
a couple years ago i contracted with one of subway's ad agencies for a small rotating sandwiches collab that ultimately they decided not to publish and i never did anything with. today feels like a good day to post one of them. here's my favorite subway sandwich, the veggie delight
Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault
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November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
3yo, picking up robot: “I AM ROBOT! I LIVE IN AMERICA.”
Me, guy who has a phd in American Studies: “what’s America?”
3yo: America is for robots.
Me, guy who has a phd in American Studies: “what’s America?”
3yo: America is for robots.
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
3yo, picking up robot: “I AM ROBOT! I LIVE IN AMERICA.”
Me, guy who has a phd in American Studies: “what’s America?”
3yo: America is for robots.
Me, guy who has a phd in American Studies: “what’s America?”
3yo: America is for robots.
It’s really staggering how quickly the so-called mainstream Jewish organizations have allowed the far right to normalize Great Replacement Theory in exchange for enforcement of compulsory Zionism
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It’s really staggering how quickly the so-called mainstream Jewish organizations have allowed the far right to normalize Great Replacement Theory in exchange for enforcement of compulsory Zionism
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Compare how Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL responded to Zohran Mamdani winning the mayoral election in NYC to how he responded to the Heritage Foundation mainstreaming actual neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Compare how Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL responded to Zohran Mamdani winning the mayoral election in NYC to how he responded to the Heritage Foundation mainstreaming actual neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
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JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council.
@pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...
@pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...
As Minneapolis Votes, Some Struggle to Keep Police Violence in the Spotlight - Bolts
Five years after George Floyd, the mayor and his allies on city council claim credit for vast improvements, but critics keep pressing the case for more discipline and police alternatives.
boltsmag.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council.
@pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...
@pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...
Michael Denning and Patricia Pessar (RIP) assigning both Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala in the fall 2001 Intro to Ethnicity Race and Migration class has prepared me for this moment in ways I could not have appreciated at the time
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Michael Denning and Patricia Pessar (RIP) assigning both Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala in the fall 2001 Intro to Ethnicity Race and Migration class has prepared me for this moment in ways I could not have appreciated at the time
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Common Cuckoo in Riverhead, NY, only the fourth record of this Eurasian species in the lower 48 states.
October 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Common Cuckoo in Riverhead, NY, only the fourth record of this Eurasian species in the lower 48 states.
I once saw Michael Imperioli on my great uncle’s block on the UWS. It was Halloween night and my then 1 and a half year old daughter was walking around in an incredible Chick (as in baby bird) costume that my partner made from scratch.
Just saw John Smoltz and Michael Imperioli (separately) while waiting to pick up Rose Lowder at Pearson.
October 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I once saw Michael Imperioli on my great uncle’s block on the UWS. It was Halloween night and my then 1 and a half year old daughter was walking around in an incredible Chick (as in baby bird) costume that my partner made from scratch.
There is an old-world cuckoo sp. (Probably Common Cuckoo) in eastern Long Island and I have to be at work at 8:30 tomorrow. Abolish work.
October 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
There is an old-world cuckoo sp. (Probably Common Cuckoo) in eastern Long Island and I have to be at work at 8:30 tomorrow. Abolish work.
Interesting conversation between Stefano Harney and Stevphen Shukaitis podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
E35 - Return to the 36 Enclosures
Podcast Episode · Minor Compositions · 08/05/2025 · 2h 1m
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October 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Interesting conversation between Stefano Harney and Stevphen Shukaitis podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
I’m sure part of it is some kind of libidinal attachment/arrested development/nostalgia for ΔΚΕ parties, but I think it’s at least as much a concerted strategy premised on securing control of the ideological state apparatus and its role in social reproduction.
i have no idea what bizarre infantile disorder makes rich people care about what happens at elite colleges for the rest of their lives
October 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I’m sure part of it is some kind of libidinal attachment/arrested development/nostalgia for ΔΚΕ parties, but I think it’s at least as much a concerted strategy premised on securing control of the ideological state apparatus and its role in social reproduction.
Andrew Ross on the Israeli carceral state’s role in the ongoing genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
Opinion | The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front
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October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Andrew Ross on the Israeli carceral state’s role in the ongoing genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
Good job, Nobel prize committee. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
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October 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Good job, Nobel prize committee. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Wait, there’s a new Hazel Carby book coming out next month?
October 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Wait, there’s a new Hazel Carby book coming out next month?
Teaching my racial capitalism class again for the first time in a few years, and crowdsourcing recommendations for readings on the following subjects:
1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE
2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.
1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE
2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.
October 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Teaching my racial capitalism class again for the first time in a few years, and crowdsourcing recommendations for readings on the following subjects:
1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE
2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.
1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE
2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.